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OUTLINE 

For the Selected Study of 

HEATH READINGS 

IN THE 

LITERATURE OF ENGLAND 

BY 

TOM PEETE CROSS 

AND 

CLEMENT TYSON GOODE 



D. C. HEATH AND COMPANY 

BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO 

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This outline is designed for a course of study of approximately one semester 
in length. 1 The selections are classified under three headings, represented by the 
symbols I, II, III; 

I. Selections for Class Study 

II. Selections for Careful Reading 

III. Selections for Rapid Reading for Appreciation. 

1 If the time is more limited still, intensive work may be confined to the starred selections in Class 
I. Under all circumstances, however, at least part of the starred selections in Classes II and III should 
be included in the assigned reading. 


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OUTLINE FOR THE SELECTED STUDY OF HEATH 
READINGS IN THE LITERATURE OF ENGLAND 


OLD ENGLISH PERIOD 


I 

Beowulf 1 . 2 

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle . 47 

King Alfred 

Preface to Cura Pastoralis . 50 

II 

Caedmon 

* Hymn. 38 

Bede 

Ecclesiastical History of the English 
Nation. 44 

III 

Judith . 38 

Adamnan 

Life of Columba. 42 

iELFRIC 

The Second Sunday after Pentecost. 52 

Anselm 

Proslogium, or a Discourse on the 
Being of God. 54 


Layamon 

Brut. 

. . 94 

Geoffrey Chaucer 

The Pardoners Tale. 

. . 156 

* Truth. 

. . 158 

The Compleint of Chaucer to 

His 

Empty Purse. 

. . 159 

Anonymous 

* Cuckoo Song. 

. . 176 

Springtime. 

. . 176 

A Hymn to the Virgin .... 

. . 176 

* Alysoun. 

. . 177 

A Plea for Pity. 

. . 177 

Blow, Northern Wind .... 

. . 178 

Geoffrey Chaucer 

Balade. 

. . 178 

Robert Henryson 

Robin and Makyne. 

. D 179 

William Dunbar 

To a Lady. 

. . 180 

Anonymous 

Song of Woman. 

. . 180 

Carol . 

. . 181 

* The Nutbrowne Maide .... 

. . 181 


MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD 

I 

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 
Sir Thomas Malory 

Le Morte Darthur. 

Geoffrey Chaucer 

* The Prologue. 

* The Nonne Preestes Tale. 

English and Scottish Popular Bal¬ 
lads 

* Edward. 

* The Three Ravens. 

Thomas Rymer. 

* Sir Patrick Spens. 

Lord Thomas and Fair Annet . . 

* Sweet William’s Ghost. 

The Wife of Usher’s Well . . . . 
Bonny Barbara Allan. 

* Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne 
Robin Hood’s Death and Burial . 

* The Hunting of the Cheviot . . . 

* Johnie Armstrong. 

II 

The Feast of Bricriu. 

Geoffrey of Monmouth 

History of the Kings of Britain 


III 

* CONNLA OF THE GOLDEN HAIR, AND THE 


Fairy Maiden. 61 

Ossian . 62 

The Mabinogion. 63 

* The Lay of Guingamor. 70 

JoCELIN OF BrAKELOND 

Chronicle of St. Edmundsbury . . 77 

Walter Map 

Courtier’s Trifles. 81 

Anonymous Lyrics 

The Glutton’s Confession. 85 

* Gaudeamus Igitur . 86 

Bartholomew 

* A Mediaeval Encyclopedia .... 86 

Richard de Bury 

Philobiblon, or Love of Books ... 90 

* The Squyr of Lowe Degre .... 120 

[William Langland].136 

* Piers the Plowman.136 

John Gower 

* Confessio Amantis.159 


RENAISSANCE 

I 

* Sir Thomas Wyatt 2 

The Lover for Shamefastness, etc. . 187 


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1 If time is limited, students may read Sections II, III, IV, VII, VIII, X, XI. 

2 If time is limited, only half of the lyrics may be required for class study. 

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OUTLINE FOR THE 


The Lover Unhappy Biddeth, etc. . 187 

The Lover Compareth His State to a 

Ship, etc.187 

The Lover Laments the Death of His 

Love.187 

A Renouncing of Love.187 

The Lover Despairing to Attain, etc. 188 
The Deserted Lover Consoleth Him¬ 
self, etc.188 

The Lover Taught, Mistrusteth Al¬ 
lurements . 188 

The Lover Sendeth His* Complaints, 

etc. 188 

The Lover Complaineth the Unkind¬ 
ness, etc.189 

The Lover’s Lute Cannot be Blamed, 

etc. 189 

The Lover Beseecheth His Mistress, 

etc. 189 

He Complaineth to His Heart, etc. 190 

Of His Love Called Anna.190 

* Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 1 

Description of the Restless State, etc. 190 

Prisoned in Windsor, etc.191 

Complaint of the Absence of Her 

Lover, etc.191 

The Lover Excuseth Himself of Sus¬ 
pected Change.192 

The Means to Attain Happy Life . 192 

Of the Death of Sir T[homas] 

W[yatt].193 

How No Age Is Content with His 

Own Estate, etc.193 

Description of Spring, etc. 194 

Description and Praise of His Love 

Geraldine.194 

Vow to Love Faithfully, etc. . . . 194 

* Virgil’s ASneid.194 

William Caxton 

Preface to Le Morte D’Arthur . . . 207 

* Preface to the Mneid .209 

II 

Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst 

The Induction.195 

Roger Ascham 

Toxophilus.210 

111 

Thomas, Lord Vaux 

Of a Contented Mind.203 

Anonymous 

A Praise of His Lady.203 

That Petrarch Cannot Be Passed, 

etc.204 

The Promise of a Constant Lover . 204 

That Each Thing Is Hurt of Itself . 204 

An Old Lover to a Young Gentle¬ 
woman .204 

Ale Song.205 

Richard Edwardes 

Amantium Ira Amoris Redintegratio 
Est .205 


GRADED STUDY OF 


George Gascoigne 

The Lullaby of a Lover.206 

A Strange Passion of a Lover . . . 206 

Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford 

If Women Could Be Fair 207 

John Foxe 

Acts and Monuments (Book of Mar¬ 
tyrs) .213 


ELIZABETHAN AGE 

I 


Edmund Spenser 

* The Faerie Queene.216 

Prothalamion.251 

Christopher Marlowe 

* The Passionate Shepherd.259 

* William Shakespeare 

On a Day, Alack the Day.260 

Spring — Winter.260 

Who is Sylvia.260 

Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred . . . 261 

Under the Greenwood Tree .... 261 

Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind . . 261 

It Was a Lover and His Lass ... 261 

O Mistress Mine.261 

Come Away, Come Away, Death . 262 

Fear No More the Heat o’ th’ Sun . 262 

Come unto These Yellow Sands . . 262 

Full Fathom Five Thy Father Lies . 262 

Where the Bee Sucks.262 

Crabbed Age and Youth.262 

Ben Jonson 

Hymn to Diana.266 

Epitaph on S[alathiel] P[avy] . . 266 

* To Celia. 267 

Song: To Celia.267 

* Simplex Munditiis .267 

Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H. . . . 267 

To the Memory of My Beloved Mas¬ 
ter William Shakspere.267 

Dr. John Donne 

* Song.268 

The Indifferent.269 

A Valediction Forbidding Mourn¬ 
ing .269 

* Love’s Deity.269 

The Computation.270 

Death.270 

Edmund Spenser .278 

* Amoretti.278 

William Shakespeare 

* Sonnets.281 

Sir Philip Sidney 

Defense of Poesy.290 

Francis Bacon 

* Essays — Of Truth — Of Adversity 

— Of Marriage and Single Life — 

Of Love — Of Great Place — Of 
. Youth and Age — Of Studies . . 314 


1 If time is limited, only half of the lyrics may be required for class study. 




















































HEATH READINGS IN THE 
II 


Michael Drayton 

Nymphidia.243 

Sir Edward Dyer 

* My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is . . 250 

Sir Walter Ralegh 

* A Vision upon This Conceit of the 

Fairy Queen.253 

* Reply to Marlowe’s Passionate Shep¬ 

herd .253 

In the Grace of Wit, of Tongue, and 

Face.254 

The Lie.254 

* His Pilgrimage.255 

The Conclusion.255 

John Lyly 

* Appelles’ Song.255 

Trico’s Song.256 

Robert Greene 

Sephestia’s Song to Her Child . . . 256 

* The Shepherd’s Wife’s Song .... 256 

Song.257 

George Peele 

Cupid’s Curse ..257 

Thomas Lodge 

,* Rosalind’s Madrigal . ./. . . . . 257 

Rosalind’s Description .1.257 

Thomas Nashe 

* Death’s Summons.259 

Michael Drayton 

* Agincourt .264 

Francis Beaumont 

On the Life of Man.271 

Lines on the Tombs in Westminster. 271 

John Fletcher 

Aspatia’s Song.271 

* What Is Love.. 271 

Care-Charming Sleep.271 

John Webster 

Dirge.272 

Dirge . . ..272 

Sir Philip Sidney 

* Astrophel and Stella.273 

Richard Hakluyt 

Voyages.295 

Robert Greene 

A Groatsworth of Wit, Bought with a 

Million of Repentance.302 

Thomas Dekker 

The Gull’s Horn-Book.304 

III 

Samuel Daniel 

The Civil Wars . ..234 

To the Lady Margaret, Countess of 

Cumberland.241 

Thomas Howell 

Written to a Most Excellent Book, 

Full of Rare Invention.249 

A Dream.250 

Nicholas Breton 

A Sweet Lullaby .258 

Phyllida and Corydon.258 


LITERATURE OF ENGLAND 7 

Robert Southwell 

The Burning Babe.259 

Thomas Campion 

To Lesbia.263 

The Man of Life Upright.263 

Jack and Joan They Think No Ill . 263 

* There Is a Garden in Her Face* . . 263 

Turn All Thy Thoughts to Eyes . . 264 

Sir John Davies 

Hymns of Astrea.265 

* Thomas Dekker 

O Sweet Content.266 

Richard Barnfield 

As It Fell upon a Day.266 

Sir Henry Wotton 

* The Character of a Happy Life . . 270 

On His Mistress, the Queen of Bohe¬ 
mia . 270 

William Drummond 

Epitaph.272 

Madrigal.272 

William Browne 

On the Countess Dowager of Pem¬ 
broke .272 

An Epitaph on Mrs. El. Y.272 


William Basse 

Elegy on Shakespeare. 273 

George Wither 

* Shall I, Wasting in Despair .... 273 

Samuel Daniel 


To Delia.276 

Ralph Holinshed 

Chronicles of England, Scotland, and 

Ireland.286 

Sir Thomas North 

Translation of Plutarch’s Lives . . 287 

Ben Jonson 

Timber.294 

John Florio 


Translation of Montaigne’s Essays — 

Of Idleness — Of the Cannibals . 306 

Joseph Hall 

Characters of Virtues and Vices . . 321 

Sir Thomas Overbury 

Characters.322 

John Earle 

Microcosmography .323 

Bible. English Authorized Version 
Marriage of Samson, Judges xiv . . 325 

The Woman at the Well, St. John iv 326 
Charity, I Corinthians xiii .... 327 

PURITAN AGE 

I 


John Milton 

On Shakespeare.328 

* L’Allegro.328 

* 11 Penseroso.329 

* Comus.331 

* Lycidas .342 

* On His Being Arrived to the Age of 

Twenty-Three.345 

To the Lord General Cromwell, etc. 345 


















































OUTLINE FOR THE GRADED STUDY OF 


On the Late Massacre in Piemont . 345 

* On His Blindness.345 

To Cyriack Skinner.346 

On His Deceased Wife.346 

* Paradise Lost.346 

Robert Herrick 

* The Argument of His Book .... 372 

Upon the Loss of His Mistresses . . 372 

Discontents in Devon.372 

* Cherry-Ripe.372 

Delight in Disorder.372 

* Corinna’s Going a Maying .... 372 

* To the Virgins, to Make Much of 

Time.373 

His Poetry His Pillar.373 

* How Roses Came Red.373 

How Violets Came Blue.374 

To Anthea, Who May Command 

Him Anything.374 

To Bacchus, a Canticle.374 

His Prayer to Ben Jonson.374 

The Night Piece, to Julia.374 

To Electra.374 

* Upon Julia’s Clothes.375 

An Ode for Ben Jonson.375 

His Prayer for Absolution.375 

* His Litany to the Holy Spirit ... 375 

* A Thanksgiving to God for His 

House.376 

Another Grace for a Child.376 

This Cross-Tree Here.376 

II 

George Herbert 

Jordan.368 

The Altar.368 

Easter Wings.368 

* Virtue.369 

The Quip. 369 

The Collar.369 

The Pulley.370 

Sir John Suckling 

* The Constant Lover.377 

* Why So Pale and Wan.377 

A Ballad upon a Wedding.377 

Richard Lovelace 

* To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars . 380 

* To Althea, from Prison.380 

Henry Vaughan 

The Retreat.382 

* The World.382 

Departed Friends.383 

Sir Thomas Browne 

Religio Medici.383 

John Milton 

Letter on Education.395 

III 

Thomas Carew 

A Cruel Mistress.370 

Disdain Returned.370 

* Ask Me No More Where Jove Be¬ 

stows .371 

Francis Quarles 

A Good-Night.371 


* Sweet Phosphor, Bring the Day . . 371 

James Shirley 

* No Armour against Fate.378 

Richard Crashaw 

Wishes to His (Supposed) Mistress . 378 

Edmund Waller 

On a Girdle.380 

* Go Lovely Rose.380 

Andrew Marvell 

To His Coy Mistress.381 

The Garden.381 

Thomas Fuller 

Worthies of England.401 


RESTORATION 


I 

John Dryden 

Absalom and Achitophel.416 

Mac Flecknoe.428 

To Mrs. Anne Killigrew.436 

A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day .... 438 

Alexander’s Feast.439 

John Evelyn 

Diary.461 

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Daniel Defoe 

The True-Born Englishman .... 430 

Abraham Cowley 

Upon the Shortness of Man’s Life . 435 

The Resurrection.435 

Of Obscurity.447 

Of Myself.448 

Sir William Temple 

Of Heroick Virtue.451 

John Dryden 

Of Heroic Plays.456 

Samuel Pepys 

Diary.463 

Jonathan Swift 

Journal to Stella.467 

III 

Samuel Butler 

* Hudibras.406 

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester 

A Satire against Mankind.414 

Love and Life. 443 

Upon Drinking in a Bowl. 443 

Constancy. 444 

William Congreve 

Ode. 441 

John Oldham 

The Careless Good Fellow. 444 

John Pomfret 

The Choice. 445 

To His Friend Inclined to Marry . 446 


AGE OF POPE 

I 

Alexander Pope 

* An Essay on Criticism. 477 






























































HEATH READINGS IN THE LITERATURE OF ENGLAND 


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* The Rape of the Lock.486 

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot.496 

Universal Prayer.501 

Daniel Defoe 

* The Shortest Way with the Dissen¬ 

ters .507 

Jonathan Swift 

A Meditation upon a Broomstick . 514 

* A Modest Proposal.514 

Sir Richard Steele 

Recollections of Childhood .... 519 

Sir Roger in Love.521 

Joseph Addison 

Westminster Abbey.523 

A Country Sunday .524 

Sir Roger at the Assizes.526 

The Vision of Mirzah.528 

The Death of Sir Roger.530 


III 

Joseph Addison 

* The Campaign. 

Matthew Prior 

A Simile. 

An Ode. 

Thomas Parnell 

A Hymn to Contentment. 

A Night-Piece on Death. 

John Gay 

A Ballad. 

* Sweet William’s Farewell to Black- 

Eyed Susan. 

John Hughes 

The Picture. 

Henry Carey 

* Sally in Our Alley. 

Mark Akenside 

Hymn to Science. 

For a Grotto. 

Lady Winchilsea 

A Nocturnal Reverie. 

Lady Grizel Baillie 

Werena My Heart Licht I Wad Dee. 
Lady Elizabeth Wardlaw 

Hardyknute. 

Allan Ramsay 

My Peggy Is a Young Thing . . . 
The Lass with a Lump of Land . . 
William Hamilton of Bangour 

The Braes of Yarrow. 

David Mallet 

* William and Margaret. 

John Dyer 

Grongar Hill. 

James Thomson 

* Seasons . 

The Castle of Indolence. 

William Shenstone 

The Schoolmistress. 

Hope. 

Edward Young 

* The Complaint, or Night Thoughts 

on Life, Death, and Immortality . 
Robert Blair 

* The Grave. 


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AGE OF JOHNSON 


I 

Oliver Goldsmith 

* The Traveller.565 

* The Deserted Village.570 

Retaliation.576 

Thomas Gray 

* Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton 

College.582 

Sonnet on the Death of Richard West 583 

* Elegy Written in a Country Church- 

Yard .583 

* The Progress of Poesy.585 

* The Bard.586 

Samuel Johnson 

* Preface to the English Dictionary . 609 

Gray.622 

James Boswell 

* The Life of Johnson.627 

II 

Samuel Johnson 

The Vanity of Human Wishes ... 561 

William Collins 

* Dirge in Cymbeline .578 

Ode to Simplicity.578 

Ode.579 

* Ode to Evening.579 

The Passions.580 

Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson 581 

Thomas Chatterton 

Bristowe Tragedie, or the Dethe of 
Syr Charles Bawdin.591 

* Mynstrelles Songe.595 

Samuel Johnson 

The Garret.603 

Oliver Goldsmith 

Justice and Generosity.605 

Adversities of Poets ....... 607 

Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of 
Chesterfield 

* To His Son.633 

Thomas Gray 

Letters.635 

Samuel Johnson 

Letters.637 

Horace Walpole 

Letters.639 

William Cowper 

* Letters.641 

III 

James Macpherson 

The Death of Cuthullin.588 

Thomas Warton 

The Grave of King Arthur .... 596 

* Written in a Blank Leaf of Dugdale’s 

Monasticon .597 

* Written at Stonehenge.598 

To the River Lodon.598 

Robert Fergusson 

The Daft Days.598 

























































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OUTLINE FOR THE GRADED STUDY OF 


William Lisle Bowles 

Bamborough Castle. 

Influence of Time on Grief . . . . 
Hope. 

* Dover Cliffs. 

Retrospection. 

Isaac Watts 

A Cradle Hymn. 

Am I a Soldier of the Cross . . . . 
Charles Wesley 

In Time of Prayer and Temptation . 

A Charge to Keep. 

Augustus M. Toplady 

* Rock of Ages. 

John Newton 

The Lord’s Day. 

William Cowper 

Walking with God. 

Praise for the Fountain Opened . . 


AGE OF ROMANTICISM 

I 

Robert Burns 

* The Cotter’s Saturday Night . . . 

* To a Mouse. 

* To a Mountain Daisy. 

Epistle to John Lapraik, an Old Scot¬ 
tish Bard. 

* Of a’ the Airts . 

* My Heart’s in the Highlands . . . 

* John Anderson, My Jo. 

* Auld Lang Syne. 

* Tam O’Shanter. 

* Sweet Afton.. 

Ae Fond Kiss. 

* Highland Mary ......... 

Ye Flowery Banks. 

A Red, Red Rose. 

* Scots, Wha Hae. 

* A Man’s a Man for a’ That .... 
William Wordsworth 

* We Are Seven. 

* Lines Written in Early Spring . . . 

Expostulation and Reply. 

The Tables Turned. 

* Lines Composed a Few Miles Above 

Tintern Abbey. 

* Lucy Poems. 

* Lucy Gray, or Solitude ...... 

Michael. 

* My Heart Leaps Up. 

Resolution and Independence . . . 
To H. C. 

* At the Grave of Burns. 

To a Highland Girl. 

* The Solitary Reaper. 

To the Cuckoo. 

She Was a Phantom of Delight . . 

* I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud . . . 

Ode to Duty. 

Elegiac Stanzas. 


* Ode, Intimations of Immortality 

from Recollections of Early . Child¬ 
hood ..695 

Composed upon an Evening of Ex¬ 
traordinary Splendour and Beauty 698 

To a Skylark.698 

Extempore Effusion upon the Death 
of James Hogg.699 

* Composed upon Westminster Bridge 699 

It Is a Beauteous Evening .... 699 

London, 1802 . 699 

* The World Is Too Much With Us . 700 

To Sleep.700 

Nuns Fret Not. 700 

* Scorn Not the Sonnet.700 

After-Thought.700 

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

Domestic Peace.701 

To a Friend Who asked, etc... . 701 

* The Rime of the Ancient Mariner . 701 

* Christabel.708 

* Kubla Khan.714 

Frost at Midnight.715 

* France: An Ode.716 

Dejection: An Ode.717 

* Hymn before Sun-Rise in the Vale of 

Chamouni.719 

The Pains of Sleep.720 

* Youth and Age.720 

* Work without Hope.721 

Epitaph.721 

George Gordon (Lord) Byron 

The Prayer of Nature.734 

* When We Two Parted.735 

Maid of Athens, Ere We Part . . . 735 

* She Walks in Beauty.735 

* The Destruction of Sennacherib . . 736 

* Stanzas for Music.736 

* Fare Thee Well.736 

So, We’ll Go No More a Roving . . 737 

To Thomas Moore.737 

Stanzas Written on the Road be¬ 
tween Florence and Pisa .... 737 

* Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage .... 738 

* The Prisoner of Chillon.752 

* The Isles of Greece. 756 

* Don Juan.757 

* On This Day I Complete My Thirty- 

Sixth Year.764 

Percy Bysshe Shelley 

* Hymn to Intellectual Beauty . . . 765 

* Ozymandias.766 

Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near 

Naples.766 

* Ode to the West Wind.767 

* The Cloud.768 

* To a Skylark.769 

Time Long Past.770 

* To Night.770 

Time.770 

To —.771 

Song.771 

Mutability.771 

A Lament.771 

Remembrance.772 


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HEATH READINGS IN THE LITERATURE OF ENGLAND 


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To —.772 

* Adonais.772 

With a Guitar, to Jane.779 

A Dirge.779 

John Keats 

Keen, Fitful Gusts.779 

To One Who Has Been Long in City 
Pent.780 

* On First Looking into Chapman’s 

Homer.780 

On Leaving Some Friends at an 

Early Hour.780 

Addressed to [Haydon].780 

When I have Fears.780 

Bright Star.781 

* The Eve of St. Agnes.781 

* Ode to a Nightingale.785 

* Ode on a Grecian Urn.787 

Ode to Psyche.787 

* To Autumn.788 

Ode on Melancholy.788 

Bards of Passion and of Mirth ... 789 

* Lines on the Mermaid Tavern . . . 789 

* La Belle Dame sans Merci .... 790 

Hyperion.790 

William Wordsworth 

* Preface to the‘Lyrical Ballads’ . . 815 

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

* Biographia Literaria.826 

Charles Lamb 

* Dream Children; A Reverie . . . 840 

* A Dissertation upon Roast Pig. . . 842 

Poor Relations.845 

The Superannuated Man.849 

II 

William Cowper 

The Diverting History of John Gil¬ 
pin .647 

* The Task.649 

On the Receipt of My Mother’s Pic¬ 
ture .658 

On the Loss of the Royal George. . 660 

Sonnet to Mrs. Unwin.660 

The Castaway.660 

George Crabbe 

* The Village.661 

William Blake 

Song.675 

* Piping Down the Valleys Wild. . . 675 

Infant Joy.676 

A Dream.676 

A Cradle Song.676 

* The Tiger.676 

The Defiled Sanctuary.676 

Auguries of Innocence.677 

Walter Scott 

* Lochinvar.721 

Marmion.722 

* Soldier Rest. 733 

* Coronach.733 

Brignal Banks.733 

* Proud Masie.734 

Thomas Campbell 

* Ye Mariners of England.801 


* The Exile of Erin.801 

Hohenlinden.802 

* Lochiel’s Warning.802 

* The Battle of the Baltic.804 

* Lord Ullin’s Daughter.804 

William Hazlitt 

* On Familiar Style.830 

Mr. Wordsworth.834 

Leigh Hunt 

Getting Up on Cold Mornings . . . 853 

Thomas de Quincey 

* Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow . 855 

Dream-Fugue.858 

Thomas Carlyle 

Death of Goethe.863 

Thomas Babington Macaulay 

Oliver Goldsmith.867 

III 

James Hogg 

* When the Kye Comes Hame. ... 794 

* The Skylark.795 

Kilmeny.795 

Robert Southey 

* The Battle of Blenheim.^799 

M/ Days among the Dead Are Past 799 
The Cataract of Lodore.800 

Thomas Moore 

The Lake of the Dismal Swamp . . 805 

* The Harp That Once through Tara’s 

Halls.805 

She Is Far from the Land.806 

* ’T Is the Last Rose of Summer . . 806 

* Oft in the Stilly Night.806 

Charles Wolfe 

* The Burial of Sir John Moore at Co¬ 

runna .806 

Thomas Love Peacock 

The Friar’s Song .807 

The War-Song of Dinas Vawr . . . 807 

Leigh Hunt 

Abou Ben Adhem.807 

Rondeau.808 

George Darley 

The Call of the Morning.808 

Prayer at Burial. 808 

The Fallen Star.808 

Thomas Hood 

Fair Ines.809 

The Death-Bed.809 

* The Bridge of Sighs.809 

Hartley Coleridge 

Sonnets.810 

Thomas Babington Macaulay 

Ivry.811 

Thomas Lovell Beddoes 

Dirge.812 

Song.813 

* Dream-Pedlary.813 

Walter Savage Landor 

* Rose Aylmer.813 

* Yes; I Write Verses.813 

To Robert Browning.814 

To Youth.814 

To Age.814 












































































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OUTLINE FOR THE GRADED STUDY OF 


* On His Seventy-Fifth Birthday . . 814 

* To My Ninth Decade.814 


VICTORIAN AGE 


I 


Alfred (Lord) Tennyson 

Claribel. 

Mariana. 

* The Lady of Shalott ....... 

The Palace of Art. 

* A Dream of Fair Women. 

* Ulysses. 

* Locksley Hall. 

* Sir Galahad. 

* Break, Break, Break. 

* The Splendour Falls. 

* Tears, Idle Tears. 

Home They Brought Her Warrior 

Dead. 

* In Memoriam A. H. H. 

* Ode on the Death of the Duke of 

Wellington. 

* The Charge of the Light Brigade , . 

Maude; A Monodrama. 

Song of the Brook. 

* Guinevere. 

* The Passing of Arthur. 

* Flower in the Crannied Wall ... 

Rizpah. 

Frater Ave atque Vale. 

* Merlin and the Gleam. 

* Crossing the Bar . 

Robert Browning 

* Song from Pippa Passes . 

Cavalier Tunes. 

Incident of the French Camp . . . 

* My Last Duchess. 

The Laboratory. 

* The Lost Leader. 

* ‘How They Brought the Good News 

from Ghent to Aix’. 

Meeting at Night. 

Parting at Morning. 

Home-Thoughts, from Abroad . . 
Home-Thoughts, from the Sea . . 

* The Bishop Orders His Tomb at 

Saint Praxed’s Church. 

A Woman’s Last Word. 

* Evelyn Hope . . .. 

Love among the Ruins. 

A Toccata of Galuppi’s. 

‘De Gustibus —’. 

My Star. 

* The Last Ride Together. 

* A Grammarian’s Funeral. 

* ‘ Childe Roland to the Dark Tower 

Came ’. 

Fra Lippo Lippi. 

* Andrea del Sarto. 

* Prospice. 

* Abt Vogler. 

* Rabbi Ben Ezra. 

Caliban upon Setebos. 


876 

876 

877 
879 
882 
886 
887 

891 

892 
892 
892 

892 

892 

892 

898 

899 

900 
900 
908 
914 
914 
916 

916 

917 

917 

917 

918 

919 

919 

920 

921 

922 
922 
922 
922 

922 

924 

924 

925 

926 

927 
927 
927 

929 

930 
933 
938 
941 
941 
943 
945 


Apparent Failure. 

Epilogue. 

Matthew Arnold 

To a Friend. 

* Shakespeare. 

A Picture at Newstead. 

* The Forsaken Merman. 

* Sohrab and Rustum. 

Requiescat. 

* Rugby Chapel. 

Thyrsis. 

* Dover Beach. 

Edward Fitzgerald 

* The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 
John Rtjskin 

Traffic. 

Robert Louis Stevenson 

* /.Ees Triplex . 

Pulvis et Umbra . 

Matthew Arnold 

* The Study of Poetry. 


949 

950 

961 

961 

961 

962 

963 
975 
975 
977 
980 

1020 

1048 

1059 

1063 

1066 


II 


Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
Lady Geraldine’s Courtship . . . 
The Cry of the Children . . . . 

* Sonnets from the Portuguese . . 
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 

* The Blessed Damozel. 

* My Sister’s Sleep. 

Sudden Light. 

The Woodspurge. 

The King’s Tragedy. 

* Sonnets. 

Chimes. 

William Morris 

Shameful Death. 

An Apology. 

* Atalanta’s Race. 

Algernon Charles Swinburne 

A Song in Time of Order .... 
Before the Beginning of Years . . 

A Leave-Taking. 

A Match. 

Rococo. 

* The Garden of Proserpine .... 

* Hertha. 

A Forsaken Garden. 

John Henry Newman 

* What Is a University?. 

Walter Pater 

* Style. 

Algernon Charles Swinburne 

King Lear. 

Christopher Marlowe. 


950 

958 

960 

981 

982 

983 
983 
983 
992 
996 

996 

997 
997 

1006 

1007 

1007 

1008 
1008 

1009 

1010 
1012 

1044 

1079 

1090 

1093 


III 


Arthur Hugh Clough 

Qua Cursum Ventus . 

Say Not the Struggle Nought Avail- 

eth. 

Charles Kingsley 

* The Sands of Dee. 

* The Three Fishers. 

When All the World is Young . . . 


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HEATH READINGS IN THE LITERATURE OF ENGLAND 


13 


Sydney Dobell 

* America.1015 

The Sailor’s Return.1015 

Home, Wounded.1016 

A Nuptial Eve.1019 

Farewell.1019 

Christina Rossetti 

Song.1026 

Three Seasons.1026 

‘Up-Hill’.1026 

The Summer is Ended.1026 

‘Sleeping at Last’.1026 

James Thomson 

* The City of Dreadful Night .... 1027 

Night.1038 

Thomas Edward Brown 

Ibant Obscurae.1039 

Song. 1039 

The Laugh.1039 

Opifex.1039 

A Wish.1039 

The Voices of Nature.1039 

Juventa Perennis.1040 

I Bended Unto Me.1040 

Arthur O’Shaughnessy 

Ode.1040 

Song.1041 

A Love Symphony.1041 

Robert Louis Stevenson 

* Requiem.•.1041 

In the States.1042 

Heather Ale.1042 

William Ernest Henley 

Ballade of Truisms.1043 

To My Mother.1043 

O, Gather Me the Rose.1043 


* Out of the Night That Covers Me . 1043 
MODERN PERIOD 


II 

Edmond Gosse 

Impression.1098 

Eugene Lee-Hamilton 

What the Sonnet Is ....... 1098 

On His ‘ Sonnets of the Wingless 

Hours’.1098 

Alfred Austin 

At Shelley’s House at Lerici .... 1099 
In the Month When Sings the 

Cuckoo.1100 

Oscar Wilde 

Requiescat.1101 

* The Ballad of Reading Gaol . . . .1102 


John Davidson 

A Ballad of Heaven.1108 

A Ballad of Hell.1109 

Francis Thompson 

To Olivia.1110 

* The Hound of Heaven. 1111 

Envoy.1113 

Robert Bridges 

* Elegy on a Lady Whom Grief for the 

Death of Her Betrothed Killed . 1113 

* I Love All Beauteous Things . . . 1114 

The Idle Life I Lead.1114 

N ightingales.1114 

Sir William Watson 

Wordsworth’s Grave.1114 

When Birds Were Songless . . . . 1117 

* England My Mother.1117 

* The World in Armour.1118 

The Saint and the Satyr.1119 

I Do Not Ask.1119 

Song — April, April.1119 

Rudyard Kipling 

The Ballad of Fisher’s Boarding 
House.1119 

* Gunga Din.1121 

L’Envoi. 1122 

The Vampire ..1122 

* Recessional.1122 

William Butler Yeats 

The Death of Cuchulain.1123 

* The White Birds .1124 

Stephen Philips 

Faces at a Fire.1124 

The Apparition.1124 

I in the Greyness Rose.1125 

John Masefield 

* Sea-Fever.1126 

A Wanderer’s Song.1126 

Alfred Noyes 

* Raleigh.1126 

Rupert Brooke 

* Pine Trees and the Sky: Evening . 1137 

Failure.1137 

* The Great Lover ........ 1137 

Hauntings.1138 

Edmund Gosse 

* The Whole Duty of Woman . . . 1139 
George Bernard Shaw 

The Case for the Critic Dramatist . 1141 
Gilbert Keith Chesterton 

* A Defense of Nonsense.1144 

Herbert George Wells 

My First Flight.1146 

John Galsworthy 

* Castles in Spain.1149 










































































































































































































































































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